{"id":4151,"date":"2012-05-04T17:31:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T17:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=4151"},"modified":"2012-05-04T17:31:54","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T17:31:54","slug":"vat-raid-hmrc-backtracking-on-or-compensating-for-impacts-on-churches-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=4151","title":{"rendered":"VAT raid: HMRC backtracking on \u2013 or compensating for \u2013 impacts on churches etc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The government is recognising the scale of the impact of the proposed VAT raid on heritage buildings, as it seeks ways to backtrack the tax take from listed places of worship (LPOW).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Following discussions between the Treasury and the Church of England (CoE) it appears that the Chancellor, recognising the substantial impact the proposals will have on churches and other historic religious structures, will either will either continue the exemption for listed places of worship, or address the impact by increasing funds to the LPOW scheme.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the case made for exempting places of worship, it was pointed out that 45 per cent of Britain\u2019s grade 1-listed buildings are churches.\u00a0 Anne Sloman, chairwoman of the Church Buildings Council, said that most big renovation projects extended churches for community use.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This has absolutely driven a landmine under the [government\u2019s] Big Society,\u2019 she said, arguing that Britain\u2019s 12,500 listed churches were maintained with almost no public money and represented a good deal for the state.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Download the report of the Church Commissioners Questions on 26 April 2012<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihbc.org.uk\/new\/docs\/Church Commissioners Questions 26 April 2012.doc\" target=\"_blank\">HERE <\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">For background links see<\/span>: <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=4123\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">See also the report at<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/874cad30-9071-11e1-8cdc-00144feab49a.html#axzz1tnfphgyV\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government is recognising the scale of the impact of the proposed VAT raid on heritage buildings, as it seeks ways to backtrack the tax take from listed places of worship (LPOW). Following discussions between the Treasury and the Church &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=4151\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4152,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions\/4152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}